Aimee Risby

Amiee Risby is from British Columbia and was born in the city of Surrey in 1995. Risby has recently finished her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University that was focused in ceramics and oil painting. The content of her work deals with anatomical studies that convey the uncertainties of everyday life with a colourful palate and a conversation between forms and materials. The main themes developed are concentrated on psychoanalysis and how the mind can manifest physically onto the body through figurative representations that include a variety of identifiably forms of the female body and various orifices.

While pursuing her education she has been involved with many community associations including the Guild of BC Ceramics, the Kwantlen Art Collective, and the Fraser Valley Potters Guild. Risby has recently shown her work in a two-person exhibition at the Crescent Beach Pop Gallery called Discretions of Internal Turmoil. Risby has receive many scholarships including the Maureen Wright scholarship, the Margaretha Bootsma award, the Linda Schwarts endowment award, the MISSA bursary and the Kwi Am Choi award. These awards have assisted her in attending a month-long residency at Medalta in Medicine Hat, Alberta and a week-long workshop at the Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts (MISSA). The Kwi Am Choi award funded her first solo exhibition at the Port Moody Arts Center.

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